Fresh Vegetables for Brevard County

We hand pick all our vegetables
to insure ripeness and consistency. Locally grown and chemical free,
that's what sets us apart from others. Shown below are a sample of the
vegetables we carry at Jason's Produce, obviously we only stock in-season
varieties so check with us for availability or special requests.

American Okra

When cooked, okra exudes
a slimy substance, which serves as a wonderful thickener in stews

Baby Bok Choy

Small heads of bok choy
are called baby bok choy, and they're more tender than the larger variety.

Baby Napa

This cabbage can be
used in stir fry dishes or as a replacement for green cabbages in slaws.

Banana Flower

These are popular in
Southeast Asia and India, where they're boiled in water or coconut milk,
then eaten like artichokes..

Bell Pepper

Red and yellow peppers
are riper, more flavorful, and pricier than the more common green ones.

Bok Choy

Bok choy has crunchy
stems and crinkled, spinach-like leaves. It's usually stir-fried with other
ingredients, but it can also be steamed or sautéed.

Chayote

This mild-flavored squash
looks like a wrinkled, pale green pear.

Chinese Bitter Melon

Dark green skin fruit.
Popular in Cantonese foods.

Chinese Broccoli

This slightly bitter
cooking green has long been popular in Italy and is now catching on in
America.

Chinese Eggplant

Compared to the familiar
American eggplant, the Chinese eggplants have thinner skins and fewer of
the bitter seeds.

Chinese Okra

This variety of luffa
gourd is cultivated for the tender and sweet flavor of its immature fruits.

Chive Flower

This edible flower is
sold before the buds open.

Cilantro

Cilantro leaves are
used throughout the world as a fragrant herb. Hispanic cooks use it in
salsas, Asians in stir-fries, and Indians in curries.

Coco Malangua

A dense, starchy root
vegetable with a flavor that leans more toward nuts than potatoes.

Curry Leaf

These look like small
bay leaves and smell like limes. Fresh is best!

Eddoes

This fuzzy brown root,
which should not be eaten raw, tastes like a rich flavored potato.

French Bean

This is a very thin
variety of green bean that's crisp, tender, and expensive.

Fuzzy Squash

This sweet and mild
squash has a fuzzy feel to it.

Garlic

Almost every cuisine
on our planet has found an important role for garlic. .

Ginger

With its sweet yet pungent
flavor, ginger has become a mainstay of many of the world's cuisines.

Green Long Beans

These beans are usually
cut into smaller pieces and used in stir fry.

Indian Bitter Melon

The Indian variety of
the bitter melon has a very rough appearing skin and is known for its bitter
flavor

Indian Eggplant

A variety of eggplant
characterized by their large oval shape and brighter purple coloring. The
Chu-Chu hybrid is the most desirable variety.

Japanese Eggplant

Similar to the Chinese
Eggplant, but with a darker skin and a more bitter taste

Long Chili

These large, mild chiles
are perfect for chiles rellenos. Mexican cooks also like to dice or purée
them, and then add them to sauces, soups, and casseroles.

Long Napa

This is the full sized
version of the Baby napa

Long Squash

A longer variety of
the fuzzy squash.

Mustard Greens

This green is known
to have a peppery taste.

Radish

These have a peppery
flavor, and they're great raw in salads and sandwiches, or you can cook
them as you would other leafy greens.

Shanghai Bok Choy

A variety of baby bok
choy which is uniformly green and does not flower.

Small Mustard Greens

This leafy green can
be pickled or used in a stir fry or soup.

Snap Peas

This cross between an
English pea and a snow pea is sweet and crisp, and is eaten whole, pod
and all.

Snow Peas

You eat these whole,
pod and all. They're often stir-fried very briefly (no more than a minute),
but they're also good raw.

Taiwan Bok Choy

The Thai variety of
bok choy

Thai Chili (Green)

This is the same as
the red pepper, however it is not ripe.

Thai Chili (Red)

This very hot pepper
can be cooked or dried and ground and used as a condiment.

Thai Eggplant

This tomato shaped eggplant
is used extensively in many Asian foods and have appeared in many Oriental
supermarkets on the West Coast

Thai Okra

This sweet, crunchy
okra can be used as a salad or cereal topping

Yu Choy Sum

This cabbage is similar
to bok choy, however it is more tender and delicately flavored.

Zucchini

America's most popular
summer squash, zucchini can be served raw, sautéed, baked, grilled,
and even shredded and baked in a cake.